Impossible-Sounding Fallout 4 Speedrun Took over 2k Hours

https://kotaku.com/twitch-youtuber-streamer-vrexia-fallout-4-no-hit-run-1850966651

by PaulHoule • 3 years ago

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dlbucci• 3 years ago

Amazing what gamers can achieve with that much time and effort. It brings to mind the Happy Hob beating the first 5 Soulsbourne games back-to-back without taking any damage (https://www.polygon.com/2019/3/21/18275978/dark-souls-bloodb...). Not actually sure which one I find more impressive!

xnorswap• 3 years ago

At least the souls games are designed in such a way that it's conceivable to not take damage.

Not taking the slightest bit of damage in Fallout 4 is utterly incomprehensible.

This is a game where you can take damage just looking the wrong way.

Even ignoring bugs, not taking a single bit of damage from enemies or just the environment, which is full of radiation, and doing it to 100% completion?

As impressive as mastering souls games is, I just can't wrap my head around this FO4 achievement.

rollcat• 3 years ago

I love it that "goated" is now a word, no matter how narrow is the actual set of people worthy of the title.

I love watching speedruns - mostly Minecraft and Factorio, but any well-executed speedrun is fun to indulge.

100% speedruns are by themselves their own category of challenging, since in general while a normal speedrun mostly optimizes for the "happy path" (where the player knowing a very particular quirk or mechanic often doesn't give them a huge advantage), 100% runs tend to exercise a much broader skillset. E.g. in a 100% Minecraft run you'd need to know how to cheese fighting the Wither, or build some redstone contraptions (for "every potion effect" achievement), things you absolutely never ever do in any%.

So the fact this guy not only did a 100% but also took no damage, on top of other voluntary challenges, at the very least deserves a new entry in the common dictionary.

Impossible-Sounding Fallout 4 Speedrun Took over 2k Hours

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